SLAVES
Today's reading: Romans 7-8

"The law is good, then. The trouble is not with the law but with me, because I am sold into slavery, with sin as my master." Romans 7:14 NLT

Isaiah's been studying the thirteen original colonies in Social Studies the past week. He is learning about the religious freedoms that drove folks from one country to find another. He's learned about the hard work it took for the newly planted Americans to settle and build up villages, governments and laws. He's also learned about slavery.

He shakes his head as he tells me he cannot really believe a person could think they own another person.

Then I have to burst his bubble to let him know slavery, of differing sorts, still occurs today.

Sexual slavery. Debt slavery. Possession slavery. Caste system slavery. And, one from which his own mother can speak, spiritual slavery.

We've all been chained by sin's effects on our lives--some of us still, quite possibly.

We've all been defined by our choices, by our past, by our 'masters'.

We've all shrunk in humiliation at where we once were, what we once did, who we once were, the slavery of our pasts.

This week I can explain, thanks to the Social Studies book, about who might be wanting to own him as a slave so he'll beware!